Urgent Action : Dozens of Nuba Detainees lives at risk

Urgent Action : Dozens of Nuba Detainees lives at risk

Published on January 11, 2013 in news

A released detainee from Kadugli , who was detained on December 14^th , 2012 informed Arry that he had been severely tortured while he was detained ,in the Army 14^th division base in Kadugli the capital of South Kordofan state , he said that” they take us eye folded to closed rooms and they beat us and put us in big barrels of cold water for hours , the peoples who were torturing us were not Sudanese they were not speaking Arabic“ . He said this kind of torture had been used on him and many of his colleagues detainees men and even women, and the detainees always taken with their eyes closed to the torture rooms.

During late October and through the tow months of November and December 2012, the Sudanese government started a campaign of mass arrests of civilians men and women in Kadugli and Dillanj, all of them from Nuba ethnicity and from one tribe the Oncho  more than 60 men were detained during November 2012, and they are still in detention since then , and facing torture and ill treatment. The detainee who spoke to Arry was released on January 5^th  2013, and he confirmed that he witnessed the women detention tortured the same way men were tortured until the women entered hunger strike in the end of December and transferred to Al Obied Prison. The estimated number of detainee women in Alobied is  almost 90women and more than 70 men still in detention in Kadugli military base , denied access to family , lawyers or medical treatment , while their lives is danger because of torture and ill-treatment inside the detention . The women in Al Obied prison are still living in inhuman conditions and they have been are denied access to family, lawyers and medical treatment.

Arry Organization is deeply concerned about the detainees’ wellbeing as their life in danger because of the life threating torture and ill treatment inside the Sudanese government detention in Kadugli military base.

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE NOW TO:

President

HE Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir

Office of the President

People’s Palace PO Box 281

Khartoum, Sudan

Fax: +249 183 782 541

Salutation: Your Excellency

Minister of Justice

Mohammed BusharaDousa

Ministry of Justice, PO Box 302

Al Nil Avenue

Khartoum, Sudan

Fax: +249 183 764 168

Email : info@sudanjudiciary.org

Salutation: Your Excellency

And copies to:

Minister of Interior

Ibrahim Mohamed Hamed

Ministry of Interior

PO Box 873

Khartoum, Sudan

Also send copies to diplomatic representatives accredited to your country

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